VERB
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leave furtively and stealthily
The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard -
pass by
three years elapsed
How To Use slip away In A Sentence
- 'When I was a little girl I used to slip away from my nurse, climb to the top of my uncle's keep and sit in the crenel spaces. The Falcons of Montabard
- Unselected choices, always slip away faster than you expect.
- They always chose an aisle seat so that Sweetheart could slip away to talk to her friends without disturbing anyone.
- ‘It is a fine sight to see the skyscrapers of Manhattan slip away astern; with them fade the cares and clangor of the city,’ she wrote some years later.
- Clearly the Mason had given orders that the Angel Gabriel must not be allowed to slip away.
- Moon's weak gravity let the gasses slip away into space.
- We managed to slip away unnoticed. The Sun
- Too much commitment to slip away from the fingers dare ask what.
- Let them slip away like the fine sand in an hourglass, one or many at a time, till there remains nothing.
- Let's enjoy the improvement COPS will bring while we have it, but unless the Administration offers a viable long-range plan, we should understand COPS is -- again -- destined to garner a few headlines and then quietly slip away. Of COPS and sugar bowls